Some members have been requesting a general install guide, with reference to repo's that should be used

To me, the repos to leave ON for updates are:

All SL repos sans Testing.The two EPEL repos. (Not necessarily recommended!) I watch my updates very carefully and always know what's going on, but these two repos are not the standard way of doing things, especially in a server enviro.

If we write an installation guide, initially it should feature ONLY the SL repos as installed by default. Writing an installation guide with 3rd party repos is not advised as they introduce unknown factors.

If we write an installation guide, initially it should feature ONLY the SL repos as installed by default. Writing an installation guide with 3rd party repos is not advised as they introduce unknown factors.

Yes...absolutely....I wouldn't add the others....I use the EPEL repos, but that's just me, on a workstation, here doing things the way I do them....

Some more precise questions on my mind on this subject:What is the Hardware requirements? Do you need 2 Network cards??How to configure this if your ISP does not provide you with a fix IP??

The answers to several questions depend on what you intend to do with your website. Is it just a way to connect or do you plan to run a heavy website?

For general use, you need a good ADSL connection would be sufficient. Any Pentium 4 (or higher) machine with 1GB or more is good. One network card is what you need. A second is only useful when creating a seperate (internal) network.

I run a webserver at home and use a internet domain for it. Without a fixed IP address. As long as your modem isn't switched off, the IP address you have would remain the same. Should the modem be reset, switched off or the ISP needs to restart anything then you might be getting a different address. You can use services that offer dynamic DNS (you have a small plugin/application that checkes in to register the current IP address) or change things manually IF they change.

Some more precise questions on my mind on this subject:What is the Hardware requirements? Do you need 2 Network cards??How to configure this if your ISP does not provide you with a fix IP??

The answers to several questions depend on what you intend to do with your website. Is it just a way to connect or do you plan to run a heavy website?

For general use, you need a good ADSL connection would be sufficient. Any Pentium 4 (or higher) machine with 1GB or more is good. One network card is what you need. A second is only useful when creating a seperate (internal) network.

I run a webserver at home and use a internet domain for it. Without a fixed IP address. As long as your modem isn't switched off, the IP address you have would remain the same. Should the modem be reset, switched off or the ISP needs to restart anything then you might be getting a different address. You can use services that offer dynamic DNS (you have a small plugin/application that checkes in to register the current IP address) or change things manually IF they change.

Thanks for your reply redman!That is good to know.I was also curious of what kind of box do you guys use at home to face the world wide web?I would love (maybe I am not the only one here?...) a feedback on how you guys set up your home server?A thread covering:"Best practices on How to build your home web-server"

something detailing:1. the hardware you use?2. the version of the OS you use? ... easy SL 6.1 now I suppose3. how you configured it?

Maybe this goes beyond the cope of Scientific Linux alone, but I would love to know how to create and manage a forum like Scientific Linux Forum using SL!Specifically:What tools do you use?How do you set them up?What kind of scripts do you have running in the background to keep everything nice and sleek like on SLF?According to you: is it doable to have it running on a box at home? And what about using something like no-ip.com for DNS?

To sum it up and in other words: I would like to know everything about managing efficiently a forum, what options is there out there? And how to implement them?Please note that I do not want to create a spin of SLF but I would like to manage myself a small forum concerning something completely different (sharing issues between owners of a property...)

I am sure there are many who can help with the info but the one who comes to mind first is our gracious host provider http://jcink.com/. He is a active member here and forum hosting is one of his specialties.